I rebooted and now KDE4 Looks Different and I've lost all my buttons..

tony5429 · 2009-05-13 21:49:10

This is very odd. I rebooted today and my KDE4 went from looking like this:

To looking like this:

I tried rebooting again and nothing changed...

Any ideas?

tony5429 · 2009-05-13 21:52:03

So now I simply closed the "Desktop Folder" and put my slideshow background back, added back my shortcuts, and relocked my widgets, so everything seems back to normal. But I am still wondering why it happened....

Primoz · 2009-05-13 22:03:27

Well it seems that somehow your settings dissappeared (in .kde4)...
Do you use Ext4 I heard it can happen with it sometimes..
But had no problems with it for now...

tony5429 · 2009-05-13 22:12:30

Weird. No; I am on XFS. And was planning on switching to EXT4 in the next couple of days. Actually, I left after I rebooted the first time and had forgotten that I had bumped the power strip while it was rebooting and it had to start over - maybe that's when I lost the file...

lucke · 2009-05-13 22:14:24

XFS suffers from the same problem as ext4 - due to delayed allocation some apps are prone to losing settings.

FrozenFox · 2009-05-14 03:23:32

As the above poster said, but adding a couple things: delayed allocation in xfs and ext4 can have such loss if you shut down improperly, theres a power outage, etc. The ext4 devs said it was actually due to improperly written programs, not the filesystem itself; but by adding nodelalloc to the options for your partition in fstab, it can be avoided anyway (at the cost of some speed.. that's for ext4 btw, im not sure if the same flag works on xfs).

I'd suggest keeping backups of stuff from .kde*, .local, .gtk*, .gnome* if you don't set nodelalloc.

Last edited by FrozenFox (2009-05-14 03:28:29)

tony5429 · 2009-05-14 04:50:46

Thanks for the information Primoz, FrozenFox, and lucke! I am planning to give ext4 a shot and if I have similar issues with the delayed allocation, I will try your "nodelalloc" flag. Now that you mention it, I am almost positive I have seen something like this in the past using Kate - where the configurations would completely, spontaneously disappear.

lucke · 2009-05-14 06:32:29

There has been stuff introduced in 2.6.30 to make ext4 handle such cases more gracefully by default, with some cost in performance, so you should be safe with ext4 soon enough.

TheGrudge · 2009-05-23 19:00:47

My KDE4 settings also are messed up, and I shutdown the system properly. I'm also using ext4, it seems that you do not need to cut the power to have data loss. It seems to happen often when login out from KDE. Maybe some things are not written while logging out and so this data is lost?
I never had this before, but since I use ext4, normal shutdowns seem to mess up my system. Just today I rebooted normally, and then FSCK said it needs to check my home partition, because it has a bad filesystem.
I'm starting to lose trust in ext4 from day to day... and yes I have nodelalloc in fstab...

Wintervenom · 2009-05-23 20:07:38

Never mind.

Last edited by Wintervenom (2009-08-03 14:11:29)

TheGrudge · 2009-05-23 20:09:10

But why would KDE4 make my home partition faulty? So that fsck needs to be run on reboot?

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I rebooted and now KDE4 Looks Different and I've lost all my buttons..

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